to the privilege of that office when in the majority, was in charge of assigning the majority opinion and chose to write it himself. His opinion restricted itself narrowly, holding that the McCain-Feingold allowed the showing of the Hillary film. A draft concurrence by Justice Kennedy argued that the court could and should go much further. The other justices in the majority began agreeing with Justice   Kennedy, and con-vinced Roberts to reassign the writing and allow Kennedy’s concurrence to instead become the majority opinion.

 

Airing the Court’s Dirty Laundry

 

On the dissenting side, John Paul Stevens, the most senior justice in the minority, assigned the dissent to Justice David Souter, who had announ...

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